I'm confident that Bill is being silly.
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I'm confident that Bill is being silly.
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
I'm confident that he's being somewhere between being silly and being a troll, too, but for which side?
Either way, being confident at people like that tends to result in them growing wilder and sillier if they were silly to begin with, so instead I went with a sig that makes it clear that these solutions don't really work. Consider it underlining his point if he's being sarcastic; contradicting him if he's not.
I think it's brilliant. 
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
I couldn't come up with something witty yet foreboding like Erik's sig, so I went for the cheap pun instead. 
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
Why, thank you!I think it's brilliant.
I think you're brilliant too, most of the time."Cold cream salves everything"?I couldn't come up with something witty yet foreboding like Erik's sig, so I went for the cheap pun instead.
Tangent: You know, it would be nice if more people quoted their sigs here when discussing them, so that discussions would stay relevant for longer.
Back to you, Catharsis. Your cheap pun will only last as long as the other signatures stick around, whereas I can just remove "too" from mine to keep it relevant. If you want help coming up with something witty and foreboding, I might be able to help you. Name a couple of subjects. For help with inspiration, try melodrama, and change the subject nouns around a bit. In the meantime, here are a couple of random suggestions for sig phrases, with categories.
Fatalism: "Either I die today, in which case I may as well have fun doing it, or I'm not going to die today, in which case I should perform high-risk activities while they are safe."
Misinterpretation: "MATH PROVES NO FREE LUNCH"
Theoretical science: "Nanotechnology: Vaporware since 1986!"
Just plain amusing: "You know who you are: If you read this, I'm sick and tired of living among these Earthlings, clueless as they are. They won't even take this message seriously, right out in the open. Please, come and pick me up."
Integral
Can't you hear it?
Erik Mesoy said:
I'm in the market for a decent quote/saying/etc for my sig. Something to the general effect of your old one:"It's war, and we're losing. All we can do is to fight the long defeat. As long as we draw breath, the fight goes on. We know we're fighting for a lost cause, but that's no reason to give up. Our enemy has no plans of retreat, but he can only advance where we draw back. Stand!"
...but that can fit into two lines. Alternatively, it could be something along the lines of the dream girl story from xkcd.
I'd appreciate your help.
-Integral
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
You could use a [size=1] tag.
"It's war, and we're losing. All we can do is to fight the long defeat. As long as we draw breath, the fight goes on. We know we're fighting for a lost cause, but that's no reason to give up. Our enemy has no plans of retreat, but he can only advance where we draw back. Stand!"
...but that can fit into two lines.
I'd appreciate your help.
-Integral
Failing that, here are a couple of progressively shorter rewrites. I tried to change the style around so it wouldn't feel like just simple snips.
"There is no victory in this war we are fighting. Defeat is inevitable. We can only put off our loss. But as long as the loss is not tomorrow, let us put it off one day at a time. Let us stand for now. Let tomorrow find us stalemated, not surrendered."
"We are facing an enemy who has no, who needs no plans of retreat. The best we can hope for is a draw. So let us do our best, for our enemy has no plan of advance other than to follow our retreat."
"Your heart still beats, and your lungs still breathe. So stand up, and put off the end yet a little more. It is inevitable that it will come, but it need not come today, or even tomorrow."
"Our loss is not like the night, which comes upon us at a given time, but like old age, which cannot bow our knee by force, only wait for us to give up. So stand."
"No cause is truly lost until its defenders have surrendered or died to the last man. And I am still alive." (alt: And you are still alive.)
BTW, awesome of you to have retained that old thing. I felt a shiver down my spine when I recited it for myself.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
I added a quote I found pretty cool. 
Mise
isle of lucy
Well the John Prescott quote didn't last long, as expected.
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
What bandwagon is that? The not being able to spell bandwagon? (Boycott has 2 t's). I agree with that political compasses are stupid and ridiculous things to put in sigs though. Much better to have a quote that only Bob Marley would believe that people believe.
azzaman333
meh
I removed something which I've already forgotten, and replaced it with my new first line.
Integral
Can't you hear it?
But that'd be stealing.You could use a [size=1] tag.
Erik Mesoy said:
Thanks! I took a few and mixed them a bit, and the version I'm going with for now is:
I'm not entirely happy with it, but it should work for now.
Erik Mesoy said:
There's quite a bit of emotion in those few sentences.
-Integral
Chairman Meow
Class IV
Ah, yes. Buddhism... the class that enabled me to make a new high score in Nethack...
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
You appear to be confusing me with the media industry.But that'd be stealing.
Anyway, I found out what the IRNCH in your sig is, so I went and added it to mine too.
Abaddon
Deity
IRNCH?
xcl
xcl
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
"xcl" means "ten character limit", it's what you put if your post isn't long enough on its own. It only works if you have between 7 and 9 characters already, of course.
Swedishguy
Deity
I added a link to the Best Quote Ever. You better check it; it's pretty cool.
Here's the link just in case: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=5419504&postcount=12
Here's the link just in case: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=5419504&postcount=12
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